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    Powerful one here for ya,chaps...painter is Charles Hoguet.

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    Very good painting George, is there any story attached? Keep 'em coming mate,
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    You're teasing us now Georgie,posting goodies and not telling us the stories. We can see she is an East Indiaman and she is entering Madras harbour,but who is she and why has she still got her studding sails up? Anyways, I'm posting another one of Kenneth Shoesmiths studies.
    This is the Royal Mail Line Steamer "Thames" on which Shoesmith served as an apprentice in 1911. According to Glyn L. Evans, "Her design with clipper bow and counter stern and raked twin funnels, gave her the appearance of a large private yacht" The ship looks to be in one of the West Indian ports and a Lamport & Holt liner is shown anchored nearby. This angle of view seems to find favour with the artist as he completed many of his ship portraits in a similar manner,
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    Shoesmith was a Mate with Cunard. He has some paintings on the old Queen Mary in Long Beach, He has the Madona of the Sea [ or ships] on board so I will be there Tuesday night and try and take a photio.
    Cheers
    Brian off on my trip to the South Seas in a couple of hours. Back in six weeks.

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    May you have fair winds,silken seas,blue skies and star filled nights,
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    Georgie,
    Another lovely seascape, Painted by Hermanus Koekkoek,a 17th century marine artist,it shows a little schuyt vittling the tall ship in the middle distance. Most probably on the Zuyder Zee.
    I have posted another Thames scene,this one is from the Royal Exchange Art Gallery and is a work by one of the foremost riverine artists,William Lionel Wylie. A greatly experienced yachtsman,Wylie spent many years on the Thames and painted very many pictures of the traffic that plied that waterway,this is entitled "The Thames at Sunset" and manages to make that murky old river look beautiful,hope you like it ,
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    This is the vessel that gave her name to the Americas Cup. She was designed by George Steers for John C.Stevens,the Commodore of the New York Yacht Club ,and built 1851 in New York with the express purpose of taking on Britain's formidable Royal Yacht Squadron.
    America made her first transatlantic voyage in the summer of 1851 and Stevens entered her in the 53 mile race around the Isle of Wight in August,Queen Victoria was in attendance.When America crossed the finishing line, her lead was so great that the Queen asked for the name of the vessel in second place. She received the legendary reply "Your Majesty, there is no second" From then on the trophy that Stevens won has been known as The Americas Cup, the most prestigious prize in the yachting world.
    The portrait was painted by the artist John Fraser and hangs in the National Maritime Museum,
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    Default Spithead 1758

    Liverpool had over 20,000 seamen who were employed on the ships that sailed out of this port,a further 10,000 seamen from beyond Merseyside were registered with the pool. Captain Kong and I were discussing this fact just before he departed for his 6 week tour of the Pacific.What we both could not understand was that out of those many thousand why were so few ever seen on this site. It would seem that Old Kong and I are the only ones who regularly contribute;sometimes we hear from Malcolm (Samsette) and occassionally Ernie pops in.We wondered whatever happened to the rest of those old salts,do we bore them?
    Well ,back to business, this study is by a contemporary British marine artist ,Malcolm Myers,a Cornishman born in 1954,he is world famous for his seascapes and historical studies.This work is entitled "Sir Edward Hawkes Fleet at Spithead",a beautifully detailed study,
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    Default HMS Trent

    Another superb Shoesmith study from Glyn L. Evans book.
    Here we can see the Royal Mail Liner Trent in her Admiralty livery,built in 1899 for Royal Mails South American service ,she was conscripted into the Royal Navy in 1915.She served as a depot ship to the Monitors HMS Severn and HMS Mersey ,on their mission to destroy the German light cruiser Konigsberg,which lay trappedby a Royal Naval blockade in the shallow waters of the Rufiji Delta on the East African coast. The story of the voyage the shallow draft monitors made from Brazil to Africas East Coast was epic and is worth looking up. The Trent reverted to Royal Mail Line service after WW1 and was sold for scrap in 1922.
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    This from The New York Times. [full article for download from the site]

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...DD405B888CF1D3

    BUBONIC PLAGUE CAN'T REACH HERE; Royal Mail Line Surgeon Says There Is Little Danger of an Outbreak. LA GUAYRA IS ISOLATED He Thinks the Malady Is More Likely to be Communicated from Black Sea Ports. $4,000 Job for John G. Burnet.
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    In the opinion of Dr. William J. Waymark, surgeon of the Royal Mail liner Trent, which sailed for the West Indies and Panama yesterday, there is a greater risk of the bubonic plague being communicated to the United States from Eastern Russia and Asia Minor than there is from Venezuela, where the scourge has been epidemic in the port of La Guayra.

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    It can be a stormy passage, this ship line lark...

    http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/royalmail.html

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    I have had a look at this as HTML, the Trent is on page 8. Plenty of technical detail: she has 15 kts (whatever that may be?) and was 'dressed' in black at the time of her rescuing post earthquake souls from Jamaica.

    http://www.sdmaritime.org/assets/Upl...imesV4No48.pdf

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oudeis View Post
    [/COLOR]I have had a look at this as HTML, the Trent is on page 8. Plenty of technical detail: she has 15 kts (whatever that may be?) and was 'dressed' in black at the time of her rescuing post earthquake souls from Jamaica.

    www.sdmaritime.org/assets/Uploads/Newsletters/iEuterpeTimesV4No48.pdf
    From page 8 of the pdf file, it sounds like they were just comparing the black hull colour to the mourning clothes of the Jamaicans.

    Thanks for the newsletter link. My son crewed on the Lady Washington (page 7) and
    Hawaiian for several years. The original Lady Washington was tender for the Columbia - whose replica lots of people have seen at Disneyland...


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    Quote Originally Posted by az_gila View Post
    From page 8 of the pdf file, it sounds like they were just comparing the black hull colour to the mourning clothes of the Jamaicans.

    Thanks for the newsletter link. My son crewed on the Lady Washington (page 7) and
    Hawaiian for several years. The original Lady Washington was tender for the Columbia - whose replica lots of people have seen at Disneyland...
    Very true, but Brian's picture and his text shows and speaks of, "the Royal Mail Liner Trent in her Admiralty livery".
    P.S.
    I came across mentions of previous 'Trents', one which played a part in the American civil war which is something that crops up here from time to time too.

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    Hi Oudeis and Az,
    I left a lot of details out of theTrents biog. she was only dressed in grey for 4 short years during her Admiralty service. She normally had buff coloured funnels ,white upperworks and a black hull. The 15 knots refers to her maximum speed.
    Other things mentioned in the biog.are her running aground in 1909, off the coast of Colombia,another RMSP liner,the Magdalena,was despatched to help tow her off.Cargo was jettisoned,but to no avail .She was divested of stores,furniture and movable fittings,she was then refloated and sailed to Southampton for repairs.
    In 1910,while on the New York -Bermuda run,she helped rescue the survivors of the Wellman aiirship America,which was attempting to make the first crossing of the Atlantic by air. The rescue took place in the hours of darkness,when they ropped to the water in their lifeboat;the Trent picked them up and landed them in New York.A couple of tales to tickle ones curiosity!
    Az, I was pleased to read of your sons service on the Lady Washington,was he in the Mercantile Marine? Do you have any more mariners in the family? just interested,that's all,
    BrianD

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